The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1920, Page 12

Excuses Won’ Games; Siwashes Must Do Some Real Ball Playing ~ Hartford Isn’t Playing Coast League Baseball; Kopp Isn’t Hitting; Change in Baldwin and Wolters in Fold Soon; Let's Climb Out of the Cellar Pronto BY LEO H. LASSEN ' ___ AM the excuses in the world won't win any ball games the Seattle Siwashes in starts the ; it, The elub has won but lot during the past two weeks. done to brace the gang up before we the standing of the Siwashes oa | Z club has been hit hard lar cateher, and Harry knocked out of the lineup with bum legs. been doing fairly good work behind the plate : has done as well w hasn't done any hitting, he rancer. former Seattle ship r,s now playing station for the vi ty te With Paddy Ste Reavers again, and Portiand series today lodged in the base- T or FRANKLIN SAVE ANY N “vo- Day! _ OW Roy? DONT WAKE NE Lawe! EXPLOSION t Win Ball LRAGUR PACIFIC COAST w Han Prancince Batting Order Might Help; the Coast league race. The we Semen AMERICAN LEAGUE \y Won Lest, | four out of 12 starts on the Something must be fal! into the rut that jast year, we by tmjuries, Jack Adams, the |} Wolters, regular rightfielder, | Pero Rohrer has nce Yoru, and, while he jee ith the club | ie terse ‘as Adams showed. Nixon, | the young fielder, who re- placed Wolters, is hitting the |**,, ‘ule. {ball harder than any other | setnores, Dev |Seattle outfielder, altho his} «orrnorr, x fielding is weird at times. ones What Seattle needs is more speed | Ynierine around the second rack and a punch | and © Neill im the outfield. “Duke” Kenworthy, at second base, has spruced playing op and ts hitting the ball hard, but Bruce Hartfor! at short stop will have to show a lot more than he has during the first two! lweeks of the season if he wants ioe }to holt his job, He has pound lout a few timely hits, about three and bas made a couple of nice plays! in the field, but he bobbles too many and isn't steady enough for a Coast league outfit. Shortetop i« | the main cog in the infield and with an unsteady man at the pivot port the club is Ike @ ship without a rudder. re sn ms ait : Wiitiame an@ Schalk and ie o.0 Vacs Morton, Murehisan, Leonard and Alnamith n © a) | Martin. Hasty, Momme Courtney, Seyder and Pi WASHINGTON, May « Dis ponadetpnia Waahiogton orien Perainas an Anion NATIONAL LEAGUE w deiphia « Im these days of $100,000 ball play. Kopp Iset Hitting ers ith interesting to find Just bow Merlin Kopp, in left field, has|Sheaply & good ball player ean be shown streake of speed on the| Soveht. The story of Biff Schaller pathe and has played'a nifty gume|Of the Portiand Reavers is a good in the field, but he hasn't hit much |“*ample of the ups and downs |petter than a blind man with [which may determine the varying crutch and has got on bases fre-| value of & player at different times }in his career, Just tk max, Pitot | Ss Fd ak cw After he had played 13 years with at the top of the batting order {tht San Franciaco Seals, Schaller found himself out of condition the He hasn't got on paths enough to web. hie Gbuek Be aM be | Middle of last season. His batting WE HAD done OUR HOUSE! aos! benched a while and the rest may slumped to such a degree that he NO TH MAID FT TO START TH FIRE Wo TH STONE WITH aT AAD) Shade Faces Disadvantage in Arena Go ‘Gives Away Weight to Gil- lum; McCarthy Meets Allie Nack Mitty Shade, the California middie | weight, will go in tonight's bout at x, | the Arena facing the same disadvant 7) age that his opponents bave had dur ‘ing the past few weeks here, and WmiMs leat in giving away weight He meets Harry Gillum, the Salt Lake boy, who will outweigh him some 5 or 20 pounds. But Shade is a ough customer, and is coming all the me. Gillum doesn't hit bard enough to make the difference count for very much, If Gillum packed pPittabere O'Neil Minet LADELIPMIA, May ¢—R » CINCINNATI, May ¢— |" Pret Game Oniews Clacinnatt Hatvertes Chieare ¢ mati tories: Alexander *, Bremter and Wines Ny THe MAJORS Tenterday's herow—The Ti nd beat t |noms for Shade to give away much | weight, but Billy hite the harder of lthe two, if anything, | Shade me of the most popular Ty | ring men of the weason here, because te is up and coming all of the time. His triumph of the season foatured ono of the recent smokers, when he won Johnny Griffiths, the Akron wolter, in @ fast fourround bout. . he The Phile picked Artie Neht, MeCiraw's 0,008 cucumber, for TL Mita and went linto Meet place by beating re 6 ove the Gian and het Yau pus Vaughe Mippe Qrover Alerender took = Ming eAch at the Moranttes aid tt 3 tot fea Wall Known Here | Gililum has fought in Seattle often jenough for the fans to know that he nan experienced man in the ring He's a big, game worker, and should jxtve Shade all the mixing he wanta r MeCarthy, who mixed with Shannon at the laet smoker raw verdict, wHl go on with uck, of New York, im the ton the curd. Unies Nack lot more than he did in Ta when Schumann handed him ing recently, MeCarthy whould beat him. 4 and Alex repeated, & twin, and lifted rt the Med fox ® at Bw Babe Rath strock out eo fy which didn't » bi, and the Tankeon ante wil fh stratedt | a ia Nack didn’t do anything in Ta 2 and his future showing» in the Northwest depends largely upon his | work tonight, because he waa a fizale Jin the upHound city, McCarthy ts |a rugged customer, with a deceptive lett 4. It should be a-good mill, f Nack does any work at all Mansell vs, Edwards Edwards, the little colored will meet Harry Mansell, the bantam, In the third bout Mansell wae nearly ent sleep by Edwards the last Une they but Harry says he was butted in the eye, and it handi capped him, | We can say now is that Marry Danny n Engtiah the card | t tia k. & wallop, it might be bad bust-| FIRE HER? DAWGUN! WE HAVENT EVEN | FOUND HER YET: MILLER HUGGINS TOMMY LONG Perhaps po manager is entirely As arule, the youngster is not sus satisfied with his ball club, but | ceptible to his own greenness in base Miller Huggins continues to main | ball and in ready to show his tain an optimistic ghatter about! wares before some big league man- his Yankees. The fact that the club|ager. Tommy Long joined the Lo took @ Iitte time in getting {ts | ville club at the beginning of last batting eye doesn't worry him any | season, and performed so well that longer. Hugging looks tmto the|the scouts began bidding for “that future with these remarks | kid southpaw. They sti bid “I never doubted the hitting | ding, but Long wants to stay in the ability of the club, I knew what [minors another year. Here's his the individual players could do. | logic: I don't think any pitcher can stop Ruth or Meusel from hit- ting onee they get started, I'm very much stuck on Meuse, He still lacks experience and polish in his fielding, but I'll bet he'll be one of the most talked of hit ters in the country this summer Some nay he is a mark for curve pitehing. Don't you belleve It. That fellow is likely to hit any thing. je is ome of those natural hitters with a perfect swing, and you ean ne more keep him from hitting than Cobb from running.” fool sure I can stick, will be mach easier for me to make good im 1981 than im isco.” | PAT MORAN The Reds have been put grease by some of the exp who they overconfident, Pat Moran nailed the statement before it | got far, Pat nays oe on on the | “im are, . EDDIE CO) The new code he j INS | of pitehing ruler | |i" destined to have as many inter. | pretations as there are twirlers| who use the “foolers,” Eddie Col. | tins, of the Chicago White Box thinks. He totes a eode book around | with him and has had many arcu mentative sessions with bush league | umpires this spring already, Collins a fight hard for every game. ants, Dodgers, Cabs and Pirates will not be easy, by agy means, this sen- son, and the Kede*know Ht. 11 make the regulars 9 rest. afford to take any SAM AGNEW There is & paixlof youngsters here on the Pacific coast who ought to be ‘ big time At } t, that Sam Agnew thinks about it ughey High and Tommy roth with the champion Ver Agnew says always regarded HWigh as one of Un jeeest all-round players I ever saw. The reason he ina't up there now is that he is a quiet fellow. He never says anything when be gets hits or makes @ great catch, or when he steals a base and wins the game. Players whe de tent horns have tough jore if they aren't great tn the mee he ye “It would have been a good ideo if the American league had sent an ompire to each training camp as the National did. Then we would have known weeks in advance just what interprets tions the league president Is ing to make on each new rule. JAKE DAUBERT Big offers from industrial plant baseball toarns have tempted some of the major cue wtare away this year.. Jake Daubert ix one with stood the , waym, he wants to be in the and not In the sideshow “1 figure these factory poor prepeMiion to stiek - } | the | | | non cit | j temptauion, une, he eal thing toome for a man still able Perhaps Benny Leonard wasn't ex actly a beau brummel when he broke into the boxing game, altho they do | him anyomere Ty Cobb Iactory team tomorre: playing as well as ty in| TAR | PORTS} \Fast Games | Billed for Star League’ |Tailored Ready Meets Walla | Walla Junior Squad; Oth- er Tilts Scheduled | Some fast games are billed for The |Star juntor diamond league Sunday when the second neries of tilts of the |neason will be played. The best gume of the day should be the Tailored | Ready- Walla Walla Junior ara [ment at Walla Walla field, The Tail ored Ready squad copped the city | title last season, and walked off with |their first game of the season when lthey defeated the Columbia Slickers, / }10 to 4, last Sunday. The Walla Walla team ts one the real contenders for the title showed ite class Sunday when Alki Juniors bowed before the W: Walla attack, 12 to 5 | Another fast game should be in order when the Columbia Slickers en- tertain the Alki Juniors at Colum- bia field. ‘The loser of this game will just about be out of the running, Roth teams dropped close games Sunday All of the teams will have been fp jaction after Sunday's games. The |Seattle Boys’ club meets the Inter bay Juniors at Mercer field. George ltown Merchants swing into actio against the Rainier Heights equad South Park and the Diamond Ao |journey to Woodland park to |the Spartan Athletic club. The Mi |Baker Juniors migrate to South attle, Where they play the South Se attle Merchants. ‘The Rainier Valley Junior-Ballard Beaver tilt, postponed last Sunday, will be played at Adams field in Bal- jtara this coming Sunday at 12 p.m. The City Cubs will open thelr sea json against the Shamrock Athletic elub at Woodland park. ‘The managers of The Star league teams don’t want to forget to attend |the meeting to be held at The Star joffice tomorrow nigh at § o'clock. Election of a new set of officers and other business will be up for discus oe bs CAMP LEWIS WIRELESS Now at 904 Third Avenae Larger Salesroom | was given bis unconditional release. | wants to keep his chin covered up| je Tigers, but be weak such things about the lgh Joarne: and ing to Loe An Feturning here May 25 to open the Salt Lake Bees race with four wins tach, start the sec get him out of the slump. Kopp haso’t shown much pepper tn his work so far, Wolters will return | He was approached by the Seattle club, then in need of cacd players, and asked his price to sign a con the present. Cunningham, in can- , ter, hasn't been doing any hitting gh oe Sree ee = OY Jem See either, He's playing a good game! The figure waa acceptable to the in the field, but outfielders are #up | geatrie cab, Schaller was given the Posed to hit. $100 bonus, and the contract signed. Right now the most valuable men itn a few days a bill for $15.38 for on the club are Sammy Bohne at| Mrs Schaller’s new hat was pre: third and Rod Murphy at first, and/ pented to the Seattle man beth men are playing out of posl-| paid. tion. If Seattle could line up | Schaller 4i4 not improve tn his fairly good firet meker and have| physical condition and his batting Murphy shipped to third and Bohne! continued to be weak, tho he had to short, the Infield should work been a consistent 200 hitter up anti better. Murphy and Bohne have|the time of hin downfall, In a deal the right banetall spirit. They're! cooked up between the Seattle cinh out there fighting for every bell and the Portland elub, then in the game. The rest of the club could throes of reorganization. Schatier do well to show ao little of that| was requented by the Reavers, When kind of fight. asked his price for Schaller, the Se Seattle haa a good pitching staff, | attle manager said he would sell the there's no denying that fact. The| outfielder for the same price which ager and| bas & tough assignment in Franklin. The tilt is for Woodland park. Lincoin did beat the Mt. Baker school in the first start of the season. Broadway will journey to Ballard play the Beavers. The have no trouble beating the enders. In'the other game of the day the Anne squad wil visit West ttle. The Indians didn’t loox any 00d against Lincoln last week will have to show a brace in if they want to keep in the for the city honors. boys get hit hard once in a while but we have as well a balanced! staff am any tenm in the league. Siebold, Gardner, Geary, Demares and Brenton of the right-handers and Schorr, the lone southpaw, have all twirled good ball. This staff will win a lot of games if the eight men behind them learn how to catch @ baseball in the pinch and hang on to it, — Baldwin Should Help The addition of Red Baldwin to the catching staff should help the club. Baldwin has been purchased from San Francisco and he's a re ceiver who will do some hitting. He should make a good partner for Jack Adams when Adams rounds into condition again. When Wolters returns to the Vneup it seems as if tt would be ® good turn in the offensive of the local club to have Bohne lead off! the batting list and let Murphy stick | third and Wolters fourth, Bohne has been getting on the bags often, [runs the bases like a deer and, with such good hitters as Murphy nd Wolters following him, Samuel should manage to score some runs. . jo | th STRIKES OUT 13 Piling up 13 strikeouts, Clarence ith hurled the Steel Works to a 1 1 win over the Asahis, at Wood- bark, Sunday. The Steel Work- have lined up a strong aggrega- and are open to meet any team this section. They're playing ae games at the Hiawatha ct PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland club | “What's the $15.38 for,” asked the nothing | Ameri neck baseball, hase has a Might to brag about. around can league are ter, while only 28 are in the select! 327 tional had been paid Schaller for signing contract The deal went thru ‘ooks later a bill was sent and a few to the for Schaller’s release. BY HENRY L. FARRE NEW YORK, May 4,--Both ma. r leagues are pinying neck and if figures mean any. ent except joan league not enough In every depart running the Ame edge, but ing. The American league 70, while the clubbers eydier's $= family are 51 Thirty-one players in hitting in hitting of John swatting the Amert 300 or bet. ircle in the National league. Ban Johnson's clubs have scored runs agningt 316 in the Na- American league batters have bit better tonight, or he may take the entire count. No one argues with the fact that Harry ia @ willing worker Louta Leonard meets Charley for dan and a preliminary completes the card BROOKLYNS MAKE LONG GAME MARK BOSTON, May 4.—The Boston Ne tlonals defeated Brooklyn shore yew terday, 2 to 1 in a 19 inning game. The same teams played a 1 to 1 tie game which went 26 Innings on Sat urday. T his makes 46 innings the }two teams have played in two ball games within a spnce of three days In addition Brooklyn, Sunday, was defeated in a 1Sinning game wit! Philadelphia, The Brooklyn - team *Bwe- ScHALLE R | Portland manager. | “Oh, that's for Schaler’s wife's! new hat.” was the anewer, The bi was paid, and Portland secured for $116.88 one af the best fielding and hardest hitting outfielders in the Pa cific Coast Jeague. MeOredie would not set! Biff now for 10 times the} price he paid. There are severa!| other interesting parallels to Biff» case in the big leagues, altho the eight champion now. Thé charppion | tells how he broke a window to get into Billy Gibson's arena in New York and got a job. “In 1912 1 aed he Feirmon | Accompanying the joint team ot! j track stare from Oxford and Cam-| | bridge t# Trainer Al Shrubb. He be-| Neves that Americans wt!! spill some) good records at the Olympics next! | August. Be sizes up the situation| | thus | “Amerion has an exeelient chance te got 85 for It. The money was spent for het dogs immediately after to duplicate her previous victories. The war bas sided athletics tn Amer. ton, and while it is rather early to make selections, 1 look for s number of record-breaking performances in which Americans will eccupy the leading rele.” . SL SALLER The pitching philosophy of Slim Sallee makes it @ little easier to un derstand how he haa held up for 12 yours and in stil] one of the greatest | figures in banebalt. He dorxn't worry | re ery tesy consistent with sound cans Play Little Faster Baseball. Than Senior Major therefore, has played «ix full games pott the field and when he Is pitching with four tnnings over in three days. [he delivers with this mental angle In yesterday's game Sherod Smith 4 went the entire 19 inningw in the box for Brooklyn, while Fillingim. for Boston, went the same distance case bas usually been the other way around where a manager has paid) an enormous price for a player only | to find he has paid good money for | piteher’s cue is never to feed him the kind of ball he wants As soon as you have them swinging you hay them beat. When Pm pitehi ow many man fs two men bit safely In one Home Run Smash Beats Varsity Men Cracking out two home runs dur ing the game, Hanley, Washingtdn State third @acker, sent Washing t ‘» diamond squad down to defeat for the firet time in two years at Denny field yesterday. He knocked | |a homer in the first Inning, and, with | the score tide at 4all in the ninth, he hammered the onion for another cireuit wallop, breaking up the party, The teams were to play the second game of the series today, at 3:30, at Denny field. ‘The score |W. 8. C. ad | Washington . The batteries Chamberlain and | | | | me other innit If they seo ed \ a | it safety re on me } pitcher can he time, And pat more frequency than 4he National | | league swatters | To dute the averages show American—Jackson, Chiengo, 467 Johnaton, Cleveland, 452; E. Collins, | Chicago, 417; Weaver, Chicago, 408: Hendrix, Roston, .351 National-—Hornsby, St 475; Rath, Cincinnati, 367; Ban | croft, Philadelphia, .362; Groh, Cin jeinnati, 845; Daubert, Cincinnati, 339, WASHINGTON OVAL MEN TO MEET OREGON HERE Washington't track squad will atame its last dual meet of the sea son here Saturday, when the sun Dodgers tangle with Oregon at De DUNCAN F. D. NEILL. There is no truth in the rumor| that if the “trial horse” outspeeded | the Shamrock IV it would be substt| tuted in the race for America’s cup. according to Col. F. D. Neill, sir] |'Thomas Lipton’s chief nautical ad-| viser, who haa just come to the} ? f i states to further plans. 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Me then advanced some sal | Gaston fell. ied 3p. m. 4 |ference meet, next month, will be ‘ake Fourth Ave. lost a game,/ ‘chosen after Saturday's neasio © National | ba fiona cording to Coach Rdmunson ‘Thp Shamrock TV hag beaten the ter Shamrock in the trials off of Wight and the object of racing them over here is solely fo the purpese ef taning wp the chal- DENTISTRY Today Is the Highest Perfected Specialty of All Science The unfortunate part of the dental profession |; there ate some neophe who. Braction the pretemstons whe fact that ferior ability, are unskilled and careless. health and comfort of their patients. “"4 Care little for the The dentist's work ts almost entirely upon the fin Nature. It A most exacting profession—the dentist must have a complete understanding of the bony structures of the head and face, as each canal, opening and prominence has a specific ime portance and carries or protects some vital organ. ually ag important ik the loeatlon o! parts supplied by. them. can league haven't while only nine in posness a clean slate. With 60 stolen bases to thelr credit, National league players have it on their rivals, who have pilfered | only 62. For no particular reason| sine middleweight, stopped apparent on the surface, the leading | Krohn, Akron, in the third hitters of the American league are of a scheduled 15-round bout making thelr clubs whack with] tis nignt, BROWN BEATS FARREN SAN’ FRANCISCO, May 4.—Young! NEW YORK.—Harry Brown, of Los Angeles, defeated British golf champion, Frankie Farren in a fast scrap at | Walter Hagen's stiffest opposition | the armory here last night. Farren| Varden is 60 y old. His started like a winner, but his joita|UPwets the age limit theory had Ittle effect on the visitor who | Secttioh game, Like came back in the second with an| Briton improves with age. avalanche of blows and from then on outpunched Farren. Willie Hune- feild won all the way from HKddie Landon antl had ton ary REEVES WINS TULSA Okla, May 4 Reeves, San Francisco, hard Jook hit-| Harry round | here H. S. BEFORE K. 0, SAN ANTONIO.—Kid Pancho, 15- year-old Mexican, is sald to be a marvelous boxer. Promoters have tried in vain to sign him to a con- tract. Pancha is a smart Mexican. He says he won't take a manager until he finishes high school here. | | JUST LIKE WINE Cushion--- 4 players will sure me great shooting wn at Brown & Hulen's his week, the octasion be- ing a tournament between Robert Cannefax, world's champion, Charles McCourt BNA Otto Reinelt. Pil Brown and Charley Hulen certainly are stag- Ing some big affairs this weano’ & Taft Ins. 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The West Vir- ginia university team has ruled it Contain, Out as objectionable, TORIURS by wearing 11 re bag spe We Ares to prove its superior. ‘Third Aca —— ee ‘RR eet —— (a ;